Ex Parte Collins

330 S.W.2d 194 (1959)

Ex parte Paul COLLINS.

No. 31278.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 4, 1959.

B. L. Collins, Lufkin, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order refusing appellant bail, after indictment for murder.

The Constitution of this State, Vernon's Ann.St., says that all prisoners are entitled to bail except in capital cases "when the proof is evident." Article I, Section 11. The term "proof evident" means that the accused, with cool and deliberate mind and formed design, maliciously killed the…